Kaneto Shindo's KURONEKO being released by Janus/Criterion!
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:09 pmIf this was done by the same director as Onibaba then this is a must see for me. I love that movie.
The trailer is pretty swift, as well:
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Kaneto Shindo's KURONEKO being released by Janus/Criterion!
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:09 pmPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:08 pmPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:20 pmPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:12 amPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:21 amPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:54 pmPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:49 pmPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:26 pmI think Criterion is just about the only R1 version available.
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 10:43 pmPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 12:54 amJanus Films have the rights to these locked down, so there will be no "other" versions floating out there on R1 — unless they are boots of other foreign releases.
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:22 pmCriterion has a little blurb about this up now:
Just waiting for them to announce both a) a Vancouver showing, and b) a DVD release. Looks to be a great film, and would probably go quite nice with Onibaba for a film night. "Dangerous Ladies" theme maybe?
Just waiting for them to announce both a) a Vancouver showing, and b) a DVD release. Looks to be a great film, and would probably go quite nice with Onibaba for a film night. "Dangerous Ladies" theme maybe?
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:48 pmPosted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:05 pmThe reviews are coming in...
"NYT CRITICS' PICK - Grabs hold of you fast and tight right from start ... As it slides between realism and extreme artifice, using cinematic and theatrical devices, Kuroneko becomes increasingly, pleasurably difficult to predict. It’s alternately abstract and down to earth, recognizable and strange, and consistently surprising." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"DON'T MISS THIS MASTERPIECE OF JAPANESE CINEMA! A powerful, haunting, and almost unbearably tense film, part ghost story, part Samurai movie, and part revenge melodrama." - New York Magazine "No Halloween slasher flick can match the artistry on display in this 1968 Japanese ghost story ... The beautiful print does justice to the austere black-and-white palette of director Kaneto Shindo, who strips everything down to its poetic essence." - Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal
"FOUR STARS - A MUCH DESERVED REVIVAL! Feels remarkably in tune with the last few waves of supernatural J-horror ... This tale of vengeful ghosts will cast a spell on you." - David Fear, Time Out NY
"Nippo-Gothic horror fables have a long tradition of proto-feminist outrage ... Kaneto Shindô’s Kuroneko (1968), finally making its New York premiere, may take the cake." - Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
"Overflows with evocative and atmospheric imagery ... Kuroneko unfolds like a dream, and at the same time, Shindo infuses the film with a scathing political subtext." - Tony Timpone, Fangoria
Read more rave reviews, here:
http://www.janusfilms.com/kuroneko/reviews.html
KURONEKO plays in San Francisco on Friday, November 26 at the Castro Theatre!
http://www.castrotheatre.com
October 29 - November 4
Boston, MA - Landmark Kendall Square
November 5 - 11
Portland, OR - Cinema 21
November 19 - 25
Los Angeles, CA - Landmark Nuart
November 26
San Francisco, CA - The Castro Theatre
December 3
Rochester, NY - George Eastman House
December 24 - 30
Denver, CO - Denver Film Society
February 25 - March 3
Minneapolis, MN - Landmark Theatres
More dates to be added! Go here for theater listings:
http://www.janusfilms.com/kuroneko/dates.html
"NYT CRITICS' PICK - Grabs hold of you fast and tight right from start ... As it slides between realism and extreme artifice, using cinematic and theatrical devices, Kuroneko becomes increasingly, pleasurably difficult to predict. It’s alternately abstract and down to earth, recognizable and strange, and consistently surprising." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"DON'T MISS THIS MASTERPIECE OF JAPANESE CINEMA! A powerful, haunting, and almost unbearably tense film, part ghost story, part Samurai movie, and part revenge melodrama." - New York Magazine "No Halloween slasher flick can match the artistry on display in this 1968 Japanese ghost story ... The beautiful print does justice to the austere black-and-white palette of director Kaneto Shindo, who strips everything down to its poetic essence." - Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal
"FOUR STARS - A MUCH DESERVED REVIVAL! Feels remarkably in tune with the last few waves of supernatural J-horror ... This tale of vengeful ghosts will cast a spell on you." - David Fear, Time Out NY
"Nippo-Gothic horror fables have a long tradition of proto-feminist outrage ... Kaneto Shindô’s Kuroneko (1968), finally making its New York premiere, may take the cake." - Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
"Overflows with evocative and atmospheric imagery ... Kuroneko unfolds like a dream, and at the same time, Shindo infuses the film with a scathing political subtext." - Tony Timpone, Fangoria
Read more rave reviews, here:
http://www.janusfilms.com/kuroneko/reviews.html
KURONEKO plays in San Francisco on Friday, November 26 at the Castro Theatre!
http://www.castrotheatre.com
October 29 - November 4
Boston, MA - Landmark Kendall Square
November 5 - 11
Portland, OR - Cinema 21
November 19 - 25
Los Angeles, CA - Landmark Nuart
November 26
San Francisco, CA - The Castro Theatre
December 3
Rochester, NY - George Eastman House
December 24 - 30
Denver, CO - Denver Film Society
February 25 - March 3
Minneapolis, MN - Landmark Theatres
More dates to be added! Go here for theater listings:
http://www.janusfilms.com/kuroneko/dates.html
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 2:12 pmFor those who live in or near Vancouver, Canada, there will be several showings at the end of next week:
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:49 pm